Life Like an Open Book
A performance diary, created and performed by people with intellectual disability
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Junior High School Students
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Introduction
For the second year running, we keep up with the creation of a show based on the lives of nine people with mental disabilities. Memories, humor, and imagination blend in a fascinating creative process, which culminates on stage, with teenage students in the audience.
Photo: Stavros Habakis
Nine adults with mental disabilities enter the magic world of theater, creating a performance based on their lives. Personal stories, everyday snapshots, favorite texts, songs, and objects build up the text, the style and eventually the overall performance that comprises a unique experience, not only for the protagonists, but also for the audience that will attend.
Each person opens up like a book unique in its kind in the Onassis Library, stimulating the emergence of all these elements that might eventually (directly or indirectly) describe the meaning of disability.The lights are on and the creators and protagonists of the show step on stage, seeking for this gaze that proves that life is a unique experience of priceless value. Look at them and, once the curtain is down, have a talk with them.
